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Salt & Tar: Ep.348- Steering Forward
The rudder hardware gets reinstalled and all the fairing gets completed on deck. Join us in some of the final days of our haul-out portion of this refit. Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it personally 💕 Much ...
Replacing Victoria’s 100+ Year Old Mahogany Transom
A long overdue repair, the mahogany from the original Victoria has just not held up to the rough and tumble life in Steve's tender. So just before setting sail for the south coast, Steve got this project done enough to get Victoria functional and ready to make the passage. --------------------...
⛵️ The one thing I don’t like about our sailboat design!! Ep.381
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Salt & Tar: Ep.347- My Fair Lady
Let the fairing begin. Now that the fiberglassing is done it is on to fairing leading up to painting. Garrett has begun priming the hull now that he's finished refastening. Even under the boat stands. We work together to get the rudder down. Garrett cleans it up and accesses how best to go abou...
Haul Out, Paint, Launch | Arabella Heads for Newfoundland’s South Coast
After eight months tied to the dock in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Arabella is finally getting ready to move again. This week, Steve removes the winter cover, finishes a series of custom sewing projects aboard the boat, hauls Arabella for her spring maintenance, and gets her ready for another seaso...
Salt & Tar: Ep.346- Monumentous IS a Word
Webster and Oxford don't know every word ;) This is both a momentous and monumental moment in this refit when I finish fiberglassing and Garrett finishes refastening! Thanks for watching. p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it p...
⛵️ 4 Reasons We Chose a Full Stainless Steel Anchoring System for Our Aluminum Sailboat | EP. 380
This week we tested our new windlass, chain and anchor. Another big step toward getting this boat ready for the water. For more information about the products we are using: cromox® stainless steel anchor chain @cromox.chains Mantus M1 Stainless Steel Performance Anchor @mantusmarine.com Ve...
Salt & Tar: Ep.345- Relaunch is Imminent
This week we get some primer on the keel and run out of screws but also get a lot of fiberglassing done. Relaunch will happen! It's only a matter of time ;) Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it personally 💕...
Pitching, Scraping and Oiling the Deck | Preparing Arabella for Sea Again
Spring may have arrived on the calendar, but Newfoundland hasn't gotten the memo. With cold rain, wind, and freezing temperatures delaying the bigger projects, Steve turns his attention to the long list of maintenance jobs that keep a wooden sailboat ready for life offshore. This week aboard ...
Salt & Tar: Ep.344- Running on Fumes
Don't worry it's not burn-out just relentless exhaustion ;) Please leave us a comment! We want to know how you recharge even in the smallest of ways. Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it personally 💕 ...
⛵️ Making our aluminum sailboat longer!! Ep.379
This week, we tackle one of the most important projects on our aluminum sailboat: building the bow sprit, anchor roller system, and windlass foundation. By the end of the episode, the bow of the boat looks completely different—and for the first time, it really starts to look like a serious offshore...
The First Things We Built For Our Shipyard.
A shop needs two things: somewhere to put your tools, and somewhere to use them. This week we turn an antique chest into a toolbox and finish a massive torsion-box workbench as we continue building out the shipyard and laying the groundwork for our plan to sail to Mexico for tequila and mezcal. Jo...
I Had 2 Hours and a Pile of Scrap Canvas… So I Built This
Wrapping up bigger canvas projects means a lot of leftover material, so Steve takes a couple of hours to knock out a quick, practical upgrade for Arabella’s 100-foot nylon anchor rode. Replacing an old, non-draining nylon stuff sack that was a hassle to flake rope into, Steve builds a custom "b...
Salt & Tar: Ep.343- The Gritty Grind
Getting the work done is hard but what follows is going to make ALL of it worthwhile 😆 Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it personally 💕 Much love!!! REFIT FUND: ----- pledge per episode --------- one-ti...
Preparing Arabella for the Biggest Adventure Yet
Before Arabella heads south for another season of exploration, Steve returns to where the journey first began—the woods and stumps where the oak trees for the boat were harvested more than 10 years ago. What was once a busy milling site covered in sawdust, logs, and lumber stacks has slowly returne...
Salt & Tar: Ep.342- Splitting the List
On-deck and below the waterline get a lot of attention in this episode. Garrett and I help each other out but mainly focus on our own areas. Splitting up the project list to tackle it faster... hopefully ;) Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so ...
⛵️ You need to know this TIP if you want to build an Aluminum Sailboat!!Ep.378
Installing the deck hatches on our aluminum expedition sailboat turned out to be WAY more complicated than we expected. This was one of those projects that kept us awake at night for months… We knew that as soon as we started welding large hatch frames into the deck, there was a real risk of warpi...
Salt & Tar: Ep.341- No Stone Unturned
Fiberglass and Screws! This is the beginning of our separate, never-ending, tasks left on the boat before relaunching. I get back to fiberglassing, working my way back to the pilot house. Garrett starts in on the lengthy process of removing the original screws in the sheathing and replacing them. We...
We Solved One of the Most Dangerous Problems on Our Sailboat
Winter still has Newfoundland in its grip, but while the harbor freezes over again outside, work aboard Arabella continues. This week, Steve tackles one of the biggest frustrations—and potential dangers—of reefing sails offshore at night in rough conditions: managing dozens of loose lines on a movi...
Salt & Tar: Ep.340- Fixation
Fixated on the pilot house roof ;) Here's the link for SV Panope on YouTube. Thanks for the inspiration! Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it personally 💕 Much love!!! REFIT FUND: ----- pledge per e...
⛵️ Building an exploration sailboat!! (this changes everything)Ep.377
Support our project: ► (Get instant access to extra content) ► donating through PayPal using: [email protected] ___________________________________________________ This week we are gonna talk about our steering system. But before installing it, we had to face a problem: it simply didn’t f...
Salt & Tar: Ep.339- Roofless
Garrett is ruth-full but the pilot house is roof-less ;) Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it personally 💕 Much love!!! REFIT FUND: ----- pledge per episode --------- one-time donation You can also supp...
We Built Our Own Sail Covers (And Learned the Hard Way)
After months of work, trial and error, and a few unexpected setbacks, we finally finished building our own sail covers and stack packs for Arabella. What started as a winter project turned into a full deep dive into canvas work—designing, patterning, sewing, breaking the machine, waiting weeks for ...